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Tu launches sustainable challenge with Graduate Fashion Foundation

Tu Clothing at Sainsbury’s is continuing its longstanding relationship with the Graduate Fashion Foundation by marking its sixth year as headline partner for GFW 2021 alongside a new sustainable fashion challenge. The ‘Tu Challenge 21’ will task the Class of 2021 at Graduate Fashion Foundation UK member universities to “think big and create a...

Retail

Tu continues to support Graduate Fashion Week

Sainsbury’s Tu has announced that it will partner with Graduate Fashion Week for the fourth year running and will offer two graduates a year-long scholarship with its design team in Coventry. In addition, Tu has also announced new industry mentors to support its chosen graduates, with acclaimed British designers Tamara and Natasha Surguladze...

Business

Is Sainsbury’s eyeing Mothercare?

British supermarket chain Sainsbury’s is reported to be interested in taking over fellow UK retailer Mothercare. Conversations might have stalled short of making an offer. Saisnbury’s is understood to have studied making a takeover offer to baby and maternity apparel retailer Mothercare, reports the ‘Mail Online’. According to people familiar...

Fashion Featured

Sainsbury's Tu clothing launches at Argos

Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s has announced that its clothing line Tu will be available from Argos from the end of the month. From April 25, Sainsbury’s Tu customers will be able to order clothing online by 2pm for next day delivery or free click and collect from 1,100 Sainsbury’s and Argos stores across the UK. There will be no minimum order...

Fashion Featured

Heidi Klum has joined forces with Lidl, but how well do supermarkets do for fashion?

Supermarkets have long been a part of the clothing retail sector, their convenient market positioning gives them an advantage over other fashion retailers because consumers are visiting their stores for groceries, making it much easier to entice them once they are in the shop. The UK’s biggest supermarket retailers, particularly Sainsbury’s,...

Fashion

Sainsbury’s hires trends team for TU line

Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s has hired a team of ’trend spotters’ to help boost its current fashion offering. The new team, which consists of 30 trend spotters, have been tasked with picking up on the latest style developments and products emerging across the globes key influencer markets, such as New York, Tokyo and Paris, according to the...

Fashion Featured

Sainsbury's reveals details of Graduate Fashion Week scholarships

Last month FashionUnited revealed that Sainsbury’s Tu clothing brand would be expanding on its Graduate Fashion Week scholarships to include a year-long mentorship for both a womenswear and menswear graduate, now the supermarket has confirmed the mentors will be Oliver Spencer and Henry Holland. Building on its support last year and the success...

Retail

Sainsbury’s Tu running weather activated ad campaign

Supermarket Sainsbury’s has launched a weather-responsive outdoor advertising campaign for its Tu clothing brand that will showcase different looks from its spring 2017 collection depending on the weather outside. Running on Clear Channel Adshel Live screens until March 26, the campaign evolves and changes based on Met Office weather data to...

Fashion Featured

Sainsbury’s Tu partners with Graduate Fashion Week

Supermarket chain Sainsbury’s is to give one fashion student a 12-month placement at its clothing arm Tu as part of the retailer’s first partnership with Graduate Fashion Week. The winner will design a womenswear collection for the Tu brand, which will hit stores for spring/summer 2017. In addition, to designing their own collection, the winner...

Design

Supermarkets fashion labels shake up internal teams

F&F, the fashion arm of UK largest retailer Tesco and Tu, Sainsbury's apparel label,have both reported the exit of department heads, as both companies restructure their internal fashion and design teams. F&F's head of buying for brands and concessions, Janet Baines has left the group, along with its head of buying for accessories and footwear,...

Design

Sainsbury's clothing business continues "to perform well"

Sainsbury's, the UK's seventh largest clothing retailer, has reported a strong growth in menswear, over 23 percent on year-on-year during its fourth quarter trading statement. This growth of apparel sales comes despite Sainsbury's overall sales dropping for the first time in nearly a decade. The retailer's own clothing range, TU, has done well...

Design

Gok Wan signs new two-year deal with Sainsbury's

Sainsbury’s, the UK’s seventh largest clothing retailer, has signed a new two-year deal with TV personality Gok Wan, the creative force behind its successful Gok for Tu collections. The announcement came as the supermarket revealed that its clothing business, which continues to take market share, is growing at around 10 percent year-on-year –...